Penniford and Saveanna flew into the Vampyrs cave. "Benjamin?" Saveanna called. "Yes?" I asked.

"We have a letter for you," Penniford replied. He handed me the letter. It read:

Dear Benjamin,

I have not seen you in a while and I would like you to come over to my toy factory. It is just beside Pandora's house. See you soon.

Sincerely,

Isaac Claus

"That was a short letter," I said. "And I haven't seen Isaac in a while. OK, I'll go."

"Can we come?" Saveanna asked. "Sure," I said. Farley came in. "Where are you going?" I turned to face him. "I'm going to see Isaac."

"Altair just prepared dinner," Farley said. "It'll be rude for you to leave like that."

"Hey, you remember Dark, right?" I asked, leaning against the wall. "Yeah," Farley said. "He stole from me, the little rat. Twenty-five smackeroos. He said he would pay me back exactly this minute."

"Yeah, he told me that he decided to use those twenty-five dollars to have dinner at a diner and doesn't plan on paying you," I revealed, staring at my paws as if it were no big deal.

Farley went crashing out the cave, shouting "DARK! YOU CHEATING GAMBLER!"

Saveanna turned to face me. "I never knew you could pull off such a big lie," She said. "No, Dark actually did tell me that," I said. Penniford and Saveanna stared at me. Finally, Penniford said, "Well then, I guess Dark is in a lot of trouble."

"Let's go to Isaac's place already," I said. Penniford and Saveanna flew up in the air, but I stayed. "Why aren't you going?" Saveanna asked. "I don't know how to transform into a bat."

"What?"Penniford asked. "I've seen you as a bat before." I stared down at my feet. "That was because Farley was able to use his power to turn me into a bat. But he's not here."

"Snap your fingers," Saveanna instructed. I obeyed and a puff of smoke rose around me. When it disappeared, I was a raccoon. "Try it again," Saveanna said. Again a puff of smoke surrounded me. This time, I was turned into a possum.

"Hmm," Saveanna wondered. "It appears that vampires can turn into any nocturnal animal, not just bats."

I snapped my fingers one last time, and was transformed into an owl. "Well, at least it flies," I said and took off into the air.

It wasn't very long before we reached the Woz family house. Suddenly, some magic force grabbed us. "What's happening?" I asked as we were pulled to the ground in front of Rebecca, Ralph, and, of course, Pandora. I morphed back into vampire form.

"What are you doing here?" Rebecca asked. "We're going to see Isaac," I said. "Can I come?" Pandora asked.

"No," Rebecca said. "Because I am the oldest out of all of us, I should go." Ralph piped in. "I'm the smartest, so I should go."

"Well I'm the tallest…"

"I'm the fastest…"

Before anyone could say another word, I interrupted. "You can all go."

"OK," Rebecca said. "Also, did you see my mask I'm using for Halloween?" She took out a mask of a goblin with mouse ears. She put it on her face.

"I'm going to be a mouse-goblin," She said, taking it off her face. "Well I think it makes you look like a rat," I said impulsively. Rebecca grabbed me by the shirt and amazingly lifted me off the ground.

"Look, palsy, I am not a rat, you got that?" She yelled, shaking me back and forth. "Not, not, not, not, not!"

"OK, ok, ok!" I replied at the same time. "That's a good little vampire," She said, dropping me to the ground. I felt like I had drunken a bottle of water stained with knock-out gas while riding on a rollercoaster.

"Where is Isaac anyway?" Ralph asked. "Right next to you," Saveanna said, pointing to a large factory. "That was easy," Rebecca said.

. . .

Farley burst into the Monster Food diner. His eyes were burning red. All the guests, waiters, and the chef, who was a purple three-eyed mouse-sized squid, turned and stared at him.

"Farley, you know you're not allowed here after that temper tantrum a year ago," The chef said. "Forget that," Farley thundered. "Where's Dark?"

"Uh, Dark's not here," The chef lied. "Have any of you seen Dark?" The waiters and guests all piled lie upon lie.

"We haven't seen him…"

"Dark, where are you…"

"No Dark here…"

Farley was not fooled. He took a step towards the chef, and when he spoke again, it was with a low voice that made the chef's fur crawl.

"Then who…was eating…THE SQUIRREL!" Farley pointed a finger ata table with four empty chairs, and on the plate was the skeleton of a squirrel. It had been stripped clean, both the insides and the outsides, and its bottom stuck up in the air.

"Run!" The chef cried, and everyone jumped out of their seats and high-tailed it out of there. "AAAUUGGHH!" Farley yelled in rage and ran out the room.

. . .

I knocked on the door of the factory. The door opened and a snout poked out. It was Isaac. "Finally, you arrived," He said. "Come in."

We walked into a huge room. Do you want to know how huge it was? This is how huge it was. It was wide enough for two Diplodocus lying end-to-end. And it was high enough for two Brachiosaurus standing on each other and there would still be ten more feet left.

I noticed that there were many machines and toys. "What are those for?" I asked. "Oh, I'm making my own special toy army," I said. "I'm going to use them to fight the witches."

"I was having so much fun here I actually forgot all about that," I said. Tiny Lego versions of Isaac as an elf marched towards us in rows, like an army. Tiny guns were in their little Lego hands.

"Hey, those are kind of cute," Penniford said. One pointed its gun at him and fired. A red light shot out and struck Penniford's bottom. "Ouch!" He yelled and hopped up into the air.

"Those may be cute, but they're also dangerous," Isaac said. Ten mouse-sized snowmen stomped towards us and shot at us with snowballs. One struck Ralph and sent him flying into the wall. "Hey, I remember those snowmen," I said. "Those are the ones who attacked us last year when we tried to save Christmas."

"We reprogrammed them and made then more intelligent," I said. "They were just demonstrating the power of their snowballs."

"What more do you have here?" I asked. At that moment, a giant mouse came stomping out of the room. Its eyes shot red lasers that burnt whatever it hit and its hands zapped things with a blue light that vaporized anything it touched. Penniford and Saveanna ran around screaming and the Woz children went white in the face and were shouting "Oh gosh! This is not happening! Let's get the heck out of here."

"Hey, someone has to be controlling it from the inside for it to work," I said. As if on cue, we heard some sadistic laughing from inside the mouse. I recognized it.

"Dark?' I asked. The eyes of the toy giant opened up and Dark and all the other gremlins, including Punk Gremlin, came stampeding out.

"What are you doing in there?" I asked. "After we ate at the diner, we ran off and found Isaac making that giant mouse, so we couldn't resist," Dark explained. "We also came here to escape Farley's wrath."

Suddenly, a voice yelled, "DARK! YOU SNEAKY GOOD-FOR-NOTHING-SEWER RAT!"

"Oh no," Pointy said. "It's Farley." This time, it was the gremlins who went white in the face and were yelling, "Let's get out of here."

Just as Farley opened, or should I say head-butted, the door the gremlins ran out screaming blue murder and Farley chased after them yelling, "WHEN I CATCH YOU I'M GOING TO SKIN YOU!"

"Well those gremlins will think again before they steal from a mad vampire," Penniford. The same Lego Isaac from before shot at the floor in front of him.

"OK, ok, I'll go," He muttered and stomped out the door. "That's one grumpy toy," I said, rubbing the back of my head.